The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy set in late Victorian era London, in which the leading characters maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations.

Subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Oscar Wilde’s last and greatest play concentrates all his incredible wit and observation into a dazzling satire of Victorian attitudes. All the ...

Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage and the resulting satire of ...

The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Dashing men-about-town John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff pursue fair ...

Prize: A pair of tickets to a National Theatre Live cinema screening of The Importance of Being Earnest, signed playtexts, ...

Two young gentlemen (Rupert Everett as Algy, Colin Firth as Jack) living in 1890's England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using ...

There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt ... You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

North Star League play usually begins in May ... you might as well say it’s as good as two games in a normal season. The importance of playing well and winning the games that you should win ...

Alumni Hall rector Br. Dennis Gunn has spent a lot of time thinking about this question in his book, “ Educating for Civic ...

Gwendolyn returns after her mother, Lady Bracknell, has refused Jack's proposal. Gwendolyn has dealt with her mother's strict hand before. Jack Worthing comes to London to escape county life under ...